drama

The Cider House Rules is a 1999 American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström and distributed by Buena Vista Pictures.

Bildungsroman

The Cider House Rules (1985) is a novel by American writer John Irving, a Bildungsroman, which was later adapted into a film (1999) and a stage play by Peter Parnell.

an intense drama about the upbringing of Homer Wells (), Topher Gracea young child who lives in a Maine orphanage run by a kindly doctor who secretly performs illegal abortions

The Cider House Rules' is an intense drama about the upbringing of Homer Wells (Topher Grace), a young child who lives in a Maine orphanage run by a kindly doctor who secretly performs illegal abortions.

a tear-jerking love story where two characters have a difficult time giving up the memories of Nicholas Sparks's carefree two-week romance

Cider House Rules is a tear-jerking love story where two characters have a difficult time giving up the memories of Nicholas Sparks's carefree two-week romance.

crime drama

The genre of the show is a crime drama.

comedy

The genres range from family and musical to comedy, drama, thriller, sci-fi and action.

one of those coming-of-age stories in which a reluctant hero journeys abroad

Based on John Irving’s 1985 novel of the same name, The Cider House Rules is one of those coming-of-age stories in which a reluctant hero journeys abroad and discovers the true meaning of Lasse Hallstrom's existence.

fiction

In genre fiction, most of the rules derive from genre convention.

in the tradition of such nineteenth-century coming-of-age novels as Dickens’s Oliver Twist and Jane Eyre

The Cider House Rules is in the tradition of such nineteenth-century coming-of-age novels as Dickens’s Oliver Twist and David Copperfield, or Brontë’s Jane Eyre.

gothic fiction

This series is most commonly classified as children's fiction, but it has also been classified in more specific genres such as gothic fiction, or some variety thereof, whether gothic fiction is mock-gothic, a satire of gothic literature, neo-Victorian or "suburban gothic".

New England tale

The Cider House Rules is the kind of New England tale that author John Irving is known for.

in the tradition of such nineteenth-century coming-of-age novels as Dickens’s Oliver Twist and David Copperfield, or Brontë’s Jane Eyre

The Cider House Rules is in the tradition of such nineteenth-century coming-of-age novels as Dickens’s Oliver Twist and David Copperfield, or Brontë’s Jane Eyre.

the inspiring tale of an abortionist, Dr. Wilbur Larch (Michael Caine)

The Cider House Rules, directed by Lasse Hallström, is the inspiring tale of an abortionist, Dr. Wilbur Larch (Michael Caine), and Michael Caine's long life of tireless, unselfish, devoted service to unwanted children in an orphanage in New England in the early part of the century—when, of course, Michael Caine was forced to ply Michael Caine's trade illegally.

coming-of-age story

The Cider House Rules may be described as a coming-of-age story in the tradition of nineteenth-century tales like David Copperfield and Oliver Twist.

romance, mystery

The genres include romance, mystery, humor, fantasy, horror and science fiction.

crime, fantasy

The main genres are crime, fantasy, romance, science fiction, western, inspirational, historical fiction and horror.

a poignant and thought-provoking novel that tells the story of Homer Wells, a young orphan who grows up and becomes a doctor at an orphanage in rural Maine

The Cider House Rules is a poignant and thought-provoking novel that tells the story of Homer Wells, a young orphan who grows up and becomes a doctor at an orphanage in rural Maine.

an epic

The Cider House Rulesis an epic, in the classic sense, with the old hero -- Dr. Wilbur Larch, pediatrician and illicit abortionist who runs an orphanage -- and a young hero -- Homer Wells, an orphan Larch has trained to replace Homer Wells, but who would rather take off on Homer Wells's personal odyssey, to see the ocean, and to experience romance.

romance

The major genres are humor, supernatural, action/fantasy and romance.

autobiographical, romance, crime, and mystery

The wide variety of genres include, comedy, drama, horror/thriller, musical, colonial, autobiographical, romance, crime, and mystery.